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    Srebrenica 25 years on: how the world lost its appetite to fight war crimes

    Ratko Mladić was brought to justice but where’s the desire to investigate mass killings in Syria, Yemen and Myanmar?
    by Julian Borger world affairs editor Jul 05, 2020 5 minutes
    General Ratko Mladić with his Serbian army and UN troops in Srebrenica, Yugoslavia, on 12 July 1995. Photograph: Art Zamur/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

    Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of ordering the execution of 8,000 men and boys from Srebrenica, will spend this week’s 25th anniversary of the slaughter in a cell in The Hague, where he has spent the past nine years.

    A quarter century on from Srebrenica, the world has become painfully used to atrocities. Mass killings in Syria or Yemen no longer always make the news. China has incarcerated more than a million Muslim Uighurs and forced contraception, sterilisation and abortions on them.

    When it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Mladić now has plenty of company. What makes his case unusual today is the fact he was and made to face justice. Three years ago Mladić was for the Srebrenica killings, in which men and teenage boys, captured when he led the 1995 attack on what was supposed to be

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